Little Hands Make Light Work

We're heading to the Market. My little helper made getting ready all the more sweeter this morning!

Breast is Best

An old/new friend and HUGE Dress Me Up supporter is hosting a Gala this weekend, raising money for her Booby Buddies CIBC Run for the Cure Team. Live music, good food and a Silent Auction are all planned, and Sara's been collected exciting donations for the event. Here's my contribution to her very important cause:



It's a beautiful lightweight blanket made from vintage seersucker cotton and organic cotton, paired with a darling toddler bonnet. The bonnet is constructed from all organic cottons, and those sweet little leaves you see on the brim? They were screen printed by yours truly (before my belly got too big with babe). The value for the set is $73. I'm honoured to have been asked for a donation to Sara's event - and can't wait to see how much money it helps to raise!

There are still a few tickets left for this event! Visit the Pink Gala and Silent Auction Facebook page to learn more, and get your ticket.

H! O! T! HOT!

Saturday at the Market was a SCORCHER. The week before it poured rain, this week we cooked. It was so hot! Record breaking temperatures were all the talk of the Market.



It was too hot to touch, so we lay June out on an Ostrich Blanket (the first one I ever made, o-so-many-years-ago-now). There was a hint of breeze at ground level.



And at Market's end we left up the tent as a sunshade, sitting on the gear, while Nathaniel retrieved the van.

Plump, Plump It Up

I recently saw an ad that brought me to this website: Say No to Plumping. I'm glad that the site is full of important and helpful information that reveals truths about an aspect of our industrialized meat system - and that it's not just propping up the company that created the ad. But what bothers me is that the campaign makes it out like it's the chickens who are deceiving us.

Children's Day!

Tomorrow is Children's Day at the Moss Street Market. Look at this wonderful line up of activities happening in all corners of the Market site:

• 10am - 1:30pm Cardboard Eco-Village Creation at the Children's Tent!
• 10am - 2pm Activities with Vendors at the Vendor booths!
• 10:30-11am, 11:30am-12pm Storytelling and String art with Anne Glover!
• 12 - 1pm Shakespeare Theatre!
• 1:30pm Parade!

I'm bringing all my fabric scrap stash - a giant basket of organic cotton fabric pieces, perfect for quilting and piecing and all sorts of craft-making. 2 Bucks a Bag!

By Bus in the Rain

Last week the rear shocks on our van popped off whatever part of the van they are supposed to be attached to, rendering the van undrivable ... especially if laden with all my gear for a Market day. My sister and her fella came to our rescue, and what unfolded that wet and rainy Saturday morning was a total adventure for our new, still sleep deprived family of four.


Self timer, waiting for the bus.

Nathaniel loaded the teeny tiny hatchback that is my sister's car to the roof, then folded himself into the drivers seat. (Nathaniel is very tall. The car is very small.) Ruby, June and I bundled up in every piece of rain gear imaginable (gumboots, rain hat, stroller cover, raincoat, nose plugs) and trundled to the bus stop.


Taken by Ruby, me at the bus stop. I found this great jacket at a local thrift shop!

Living in Victoria, we often wake up to rain - that usually clears, at least in the summer season, by noon. Not so that Saturday. It POURED. Yet, Market Day was a lot of fun.


Mama and Babe at Market. Can you find the wee one? Note the Ostrich Blanket on the stroller. Perfect for rain protection.

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Market in the rain, and to my lovely customers. It was all about baby gifts last Saturday! Thanks so much for choosing to buy handmade for the little ones in your lives.


The view from my chair.